Japanese WWII survivor recounts the fire and fury as her city burned.
ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
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WW2: Was it right to bomb Hiroshima?
In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...
SBS3 个月
Surviving Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb
The firestorm enveloped Hiroshima and lasted three days, trapping and killing many survivors of the initial blast. Especially vulnerable were people who couldn’t escape in the first minutes ...
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Hiroshima after the bomb fell, and what it looks like now
President Barack Obama is in Hiroshima, Japan Friday, the first sitting president to visit the site of the first wartime use of an atomic weapon. Speaking at the city's Peace Memorial Park ...
Saipan Tribune18 天
'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestorm
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland. Five months before the United States ...
ジャパンタイムズ18 天
'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo's World War II firestorm
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as U.S. B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ... dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime ...